JOB DESCRIPTION

To provide accounting and administrative supervision to Urwego’s finance function ensuring effective, efficient, high-quality accounting & budgeting services, timely reporting and compliance to timelines and regulations.

LOCATION:

Kigali, Rwanda

LEVEL:

Professional

DEPARTMENT:

Finance

RESPONSIBILITIES

Coordination of journal entries processes

• Coordinate the bookkeeping processes and ensure timeliness and accuracy of journal entries,
• Coordinate and lead the team toward compliance with laws and regulations as well as accounting standards,
• Ensure compliance with tax administration requirements.

Foster accuracy of financial data

• Put in place preventive and detective measures designed to foster accuracy of financial data,
• Ensure daily and weekly reconciliations of general ledger accounts,
• Ensure existence of relevant roll forward reports (fixed assets, lease, borrowings, loans) to confirm accuracy of financial data.

Preparation of financial reports for various stakeholders

• Prepare monthly and quarterly financial reports for internal and external use,
• Ensure financial reports are true and fair in accordance with accounting standards and other laws and regulations,
• Prepare periodic regulatory reports (daily, monthly, quarterly),
• To each report, prepare narrative reports explaining key variances,
• Ensure value for money for all transactions.

Audit and Clearance Processes

• Have orderly transactions to ease auditing exercises by auditors (internal & external), inspector and tax administrator,
• Attend in a timely manner to queries from auditing and inspection processes,
• Ensure timely closure of findings from auditing and inspection processes,
• Assist and guide clearance of all queries raised by external as well as internal auditors.

Internal Controls &compliance

• Develop and document business processes and accounting policies to maintain and strengthen internal controls,
• Propose perceived internal controls deficiency to finance director for improvements,
• Review and recommend changes in policies and procedures that will improve financial performance.

ESSENTIAL SKILLS

• Be proactive and able to work under pressure,
• Be skilled at strict adherence to tight deadlines,
• Have a compliance culture to accounting standards, laws, regulations, policies and procedures,
• Readiness to perform any other duties as assigned by the supervisor,
• Mastery of accounting principles, BNR regulations, and tax laws,
• Readiness to perform any other duties as assigned by the supervisor.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Should have a bachelor’s degree in accounting or other related disciplines,
• Should hold ACCA or CPA qualification,
• Having experience in auditing is an added advantage,
• Be result oriented and live Christians values of humility and customer care to mention but a few,
• Be team player and good at building and developing teams,
• A good communicator,
• Excellent skills in use of spreadsheets mainly excel.

• Coordinate the bookkeeping processes and ensure timeliness and accuracy of journal entries,
• Coordinate and lead the team toward compliance with laws and regulations as well as accounting standards,
• Ensure compliance with tax administration requirements.
• Put in place preventive and detective measures designed to foster accuracy of financial data,
• Ensure daily and weekly reconciliations of general ledger accounts,
• Ensure existence of relevant roll forward reports (fixed assets, lease, borrowings, loans) to confirm accuracy of financial data.
• Prepare monthly and quarterly financial reports for internal and external use,
• Ensure financial reports are true and fair in accordance with accounting standards and other laws and regulations,
• Prepare periodic regulatory reports (daily, monthly, quarterly),
• To each report, prepare narrative reports explaining key variances,
• Ensure value for money for all transactions.
• Have orderly transactions to ease auditing exercises by auditors (internal & external), inspector and tax administrator,
• Attend in a timely manner to queries from auditing and inspection processes,
• Ensure timely closure of findings from auditing and inspection processes,
• Assist and guide clearance of all queries raised by external as well as internal auditors.
• Develop and document business processes and accounting policies to maintain and strengthen internal controls,
• Propose perceived internal controls deficiency to finance director for improvements,
• Review and recommend changes in policies and procedures that will improve financial performance.

• Be proactive and able to work under pressure,
• Be skilled at strict adherence to tight deadlines,
• Have a compliance culture to accounting standards, laws, regulations, policies and procedures,
• Readiness to perform any other duties as assigned by the supervisor,
• Mastery of accounting principles, BNR regulations, and tax laws,
• Readiness to perform any other duties as assigned by the supervisor.
• Excellent skills in use of spreadsheets mainly excel.

• Should have a bachelor’s degree in accounting or other related disciplines,
• Should hold ACCA or CPA qualification,
• Having experience in auditing is an added advantage,
• Be result oriented and live Christians values of humility and customer care to mention but a few,
• Be team player and good at building and developing teams,
• A good communicator,